Paris (AFP)
The Dutch center-half of Paris SG Luc Steins tested positive for Covid-19, on the eve of the "Final Four" of the Handball Champions League, and was placed in solitary confinement, we learned by the club on Sunday night.
Luc Steins tested positive according to the result of a test carried out on Saturday.
Placed in solitary confinement, he did not train and did not travel with the team on Sunday towards Cologne (Germany), where the "Final Four" of the 2019/2020 edition is organized on Monday and Tuesday. of the Handball Champions League.
No other player in the squad has tested positive, according to test results on Saturday, the club said.
Arrived at the beginning of the afternoon in Germany, players and members of the staff were again tested and awaited these new results Sunday evening, while waiting to be able to integrate the health bubble set up by the European Handball Federation (EHF) in order to limit the spread of the virus.
Luc Steins had been hired by Paris SG as a medical joker at the end of November, in order to compensate for the absence of Nikola Karabatic, victim of a rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament of the right knee in mid-October.
The Dutch international should have taken his very first steps in the queen competition on the occasion of this "Final Four".
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